2025 - Forgotten Weapons

Gerat Potsdam: Mauser Copies the Sten Gun

June 2, 2025 Ian McCollum 19

In the fall of 1944, the Mauser company was given a contract to develop drawings of a direct copy of the British Sten gun (code named Gerät Potsdam), and to manufacture 10,000 of them. In […]

Serbu Super Shorty: Is It Awesome or Just Dumb?

May 31, 2025 Ian McCollum 59

The Super Shorty is a pump action shotgun reduced to a 2-round tube capacity and a 6.5″ barrel made by Serbu Firearms. The first one was made in 1998 and since then Mark Serbu has […]

Short Swiss Schmidt Rubins: M1900 Short Rifle & M1905 Cavalry Carbine

May 30, 2025 Ian McCollum 12

When the Swiss military went to make a short version of its M1896 rifle for cavalry, it realized that the early Schmidt-Rubin action had a problem: it was really, really long. With locking lugs all […]

DSA’s Unique Titanium FAL Project

May 28, 2025 Ian McCollum 22

DS Arms got some billet titanium and decided to make a batch of titanium receivers and other parts. This turned out to be a nightmarish amount of work, and two of the receivers had to […]

Haenel’s Prototype Simplified Sturmgewehr StG45(H)

May 26, 2025 Ian McCollum 77

In December 1944, the Haenel company received permission to produce a simplified version of the StG-44 Sturmgewehr. The idea was to keep the mechanical system and controls as similar as possible to the design in […]

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 11: The Snider-Enfield

May 24, 2025 Ian McCollum 7

Full video with reloading segment and clip solid file available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-11-snider-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, and […]

ASAC Presentation: Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution

May 23, 2025 Ian McCollum 3

This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Joel Bohy, coauthor of a new book of the same name, published by Mowbray. You […]

Stamm-Saurer Model 1913 Long-Recoil Prototype Rifle

May 21, 2025 Ian McCollum 17

Hans Stamm developed a series of firearms in Switzerland in the early 1900s, and today we are looking at a second-pattern Model 1913 semiauto rifle. This was developed while Stamm was working for the Saurer […]

AK4: Sweden’s Beefed-Up Take on the G3

May 19, 2025 Ian McCollum 13

Order your copy of Small Arms of the Cold War: Battle Rifles of NATO today: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/cold-war-battle Or if you are in Europe, please order through our European site: https://www.headstampbook.com/cold-war-battle When Sweden decided to replace its […]

Q&A: All About Submachine Guns (May 2025)

May 17, 2025 Ian McCollum 44

Today’s Q&A is brought to you by the fine folks at Patreon! Join us to help support Forgotten Weapons, get videos without ads, and to submit your questions for future Q&A videos: http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons This month’s […]